title: Do deviations from radiance-invariance of metameric matches contradict the three pigment theory of foveal trichromacy?
abstract: According to the pigment theory of matching, metameric matches result from the equation of the rates of photoisomerizations for each of the three classes of cone pigments excited by the two matched fields. If true, matches are radiance-invariant and additive. Tests of the theory in this paper show small but ubiquitous failures in radiance-invariance due to systematic rather than random errors in matching. A choice between two possible explanations for these systematic errors favors the view that in subjects who deliberately or intuitively search for the middle of the matching range, the errors are due to an asymmetry in the Weber fraction for color (Trezona) at low (but not high) levels of retinal illuminance.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alpern
authors.forename: H Z
authors.initials: HZ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Noji
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D003119:Color Perception Tests; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D005584:Fovea Centralis / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D008297:Male; D010786:Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology; D012168:Retinal Pigments / Q000502:physiology*; D013053:Spectrophotometry
chemical_list: D012168:Retinal Pigments